Parable of the Sower
I didn’t think the prose was amazing—very utilitarian, taciturnly written—but I enjoyed the way that the narrative progressed. In the same way that an apocalypse must end the stories of people in their middles, without any sort of pat resolution, the lives of the people surrounding the protagonist also were snuffed out. Painfully, with no meaning, sometimes no understanding of what had happened to them. This seems realistic.